2019 – 2020 I N FALL D C L L U IE D WINTER F E IN L G T T GL LI O & BE N PE MA QUOT AND ROW Table of Contents Welcome New Publishers .................................3 Featured Titles ...................................................4 Biography/History/True Crime .........................6 Cooking ........................................................... 40 Nature/Science/Gardening ............................ 53 The Arts ........................................................... 64 Children’s ........................................................ 98 Business ......................................................... 112 Health/Self-Help/Parenting .......................... 118 Crafts and Hobbies ........................................126 Fiction/Poetry/Graphic Novels ..................... 151 Games/Gifts/Calendars ................................. 172 Religion and Inspiration ................................179 Social Sciences ..............................................193 Reference ...................................................... 205 Sports and Outdoor Recreation ................... 209 Travel ............................................................. 243 All Things Local ............................................. 267 Professional .................................................. 296 Sales Representation ....................................313 Indices ............................................................316 Ordering Info ......................... Inside Back Cover IS PLEASED TO WELCOME THE FOLLOWING PUBLISHERS: Applause, now in its fourth decade, is America’s foremost publisher of theater and cinema books. Books range from biographies of film and theater luminaries, to playscripts, librettos, monologue books, and explorations of film and theater history. Backbeat Books have been favorites among passionate music fans and musicians since 1991. Known for their depth, spirit, and authority, Backbeat offers a diverse range of books—from biographies and memoirs, critical examinations and histories, to authoritative volumes on musical instruments—covering all areas of rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, and beyond. Limelight Editions has been one of the world’s leading performing arts ELIG IM HT publishers for more than thirty years. Limelight offers essential resources L for working and aspiring actors, producers, writers, directors, filmmakers, set designers, and others, as well as guides to navigating a successful career in film and theater. From winning that audition, to getting your film E made, to managing your own theatre company, Limelight books have the DITIONS information you need. Union Park Press specializes in exquisitely designed regional books focused in New England and the Boston areas in the subject categories of travel, history, cooking and the outdoors. NBN is pleased to be the new trade book distributor for these publishers formerly distributed by Hal Leonard Book Group: Alijas Enterprises, Avalanche Records & Books, Country Music Hall of Fame, Cherry Lane Music, Classical Music Today, Freedom Three Publishing, Himarks Publishing, JBL Pro Audio Publications, Jake Island Ltd, Jetty Jewels Inc. , Kendrick Books, KaSu Press, Luthiers Press, Music Resources, Playbill , Rebeats Press, Subtext/Glen Young, Tape OP, Tipbook Company, Theater World, Vintage Guitar, Village Music Circles, Wrecking Crew LLC. FEATURED TITLES from NationalCheck Book Network out PAGE 7 PAGE 8 PAGE 53 4 PAGE 40 PAGE 67 PAGE 41 PAGE 78 PAGE 113 FEATURED TITLES from NationalCheck Book Network out PAGE 129 PAGE 137 PAGE 203 PAGE 167 PAGE 240 PAGE 202 PAGE 254 PAGE 267 5 BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/TRUE CRIME Stealing Wyeth Hong Kong Beat True Stories From One of the Last British Police Officers in Colonial BY BRUCE MOWDAY Hong Kong Andrew Wyeth was one of the best known American artists in the BY SIMON ROBERTS world in the 20th century with his works, including the Helga series, being sought after by serious art collectors worldwide. His father, N. Sex, drugs, gambling, ghosts, drinking, rugby, overseas C., and son, Jamie, are integral parts of the best known American adventures—and even some police work. family of artists. They have an art museum dedicated to their works. Hong Kong on the edge of empire was a place teeming with triads, A gang of thieves decided to steal an original Wyeth painting for smugglers, Chinese immigrants and Vietnamese refugees. Simon’s their “retirement” and engaged a professional cat burglar (who was memoir of his time in the Hong Kong police force—from the 1970s responsible for more than 1,500 crimes during his criminal career) to until after the 1997 handover—is a fast-paced tale of his exploits. steal a Wyeth painting. The theft resulted in taking 15 paintings from From the murky back streets of Kowloon to the open seas in the the Wyeth estate in picturesque Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Seven Marine division, his shocking and hilarious tales offer an alternative were done by Andrew, six by Jamie and the other two by California look back at what life was really like on the Hong Kong beat. artists. Simon Roberts joined the Royal Hong Kong Police in 1979 and Today, those paintings would be worth millions of dollars. The FBI continued to serve in the Hong Kong Police after the handover and Pennsylvania State Police were the investigating agencies. in 1997. During his 23 years of service he worked in different Were the paintings still in America, Europe, or Asia? Were the departments all over the Territory. These included district crime and paintings pre-sold and in a private collection, being stored for future anti-triad squads, vice squads, Operational Command, Crime HQ, sales or destroyed because the artwork was so well known? Crime Prevention, Marine, and even as a court prosecutor. During his time in Hong Kong he kept a diary and was a prodigious letter The search for the paintings takes the investigators throughout writer. He still has many of the early letters which, together with the United States and involves dangerous thieves, gamblers, drug accumulated official documents, form the backbone of this book. dealers and murderers. In the process of tracking down the thieves Simon continues to work in the security industry. He now lives in and the paintings, hundreds of other crimes were solved. England. Bruce Mowday is an award-winning author and newspaper reporter. Mowday has appeared on the Discovery ID channel, C-SPAN, the Pennsylvania Cable Network, along with Philadelphia and local television shows. He lives in Downington, Pennsylvania. · Author is contacting venues for talks and book signings and will do interviews for television, radio, internet, and print August 2019 • True Crime/Heists & Robberies December 2019 • Biography & Autobiography/Law Enforcement 144 pages • 5½ x 8½ 248 pages • 16 Color Photos • 5½ x 8½ 978-1-56980-826-9 • $24.95 • Cloth • [Trade] 978-988-779281-9 • $17.95 • Paper • [Trade] BARRICADE BOOKS BLACKSMITH BOOKS 6 BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY/TRUE CRIME Burt Reynolds, Put the Pedal to the Metal How a Nude Centerfold Sex Symbol Seduced Hollywood BY DARWIN PORTER AND DANFORTH PRINCE In the 1970s and ‘80s, Burt Reynolds represented a new breed of movie star: Charming and relentlessly macho, he was a good ol’ Southern boy who made hearts throb and audiences laugh. He was Burt Reynolds, a football hero and a guy you might have shared some jokes with in a redneck bar. After an impressive but tormented career, rivers of negative publicity, a self-admitted history of bad choices, and a spectacular fall from Hollywood grace, he died in Jupiter, Florida, at the age of 82 in September of 2018. Once, he posed nude for a woman’s magazine. Even though, by his admission, it ultimately hurt his career, fan mail from horny females poured in from across the nation. For five years, both in terms of earnings and popularity, he was the number one box office star in the world. Smokey and the Bandit (1977) became the biggest-grossing car-chase film of all time. As he put it, perhaps as a means of bolstering his image, “I like nothing better than making love to some of the most beautiful women in the world.” He was referring to his sexual involvements with Catherine Deneuve, Farrah Fawcett, Dolly Parton, Cybill Shepherd, Tammy Wynette, Lucie Arnaz, Kim Basinger, Candice Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Lorna Luft, Sarah Miles, Angie Dickinson, Elizabeth Taylor, or Marilyn Monroe, whom he once picked up on his way to the Actors Studio in New York City. He also hung out with Bette Davis. (“I always had a thing for her.”) Love with another VIP came in the form of that “Sweetheart of the G.I.s,” Dinah Shore. Their May-September affair sparked endless chatter. “I appreciate older women,” he once said in a August 2019 • Biography & Autobiography/Entertainment & moment of self-revelation. Performing Arts 384 pages • 70 B/W Photos • 6 x 9 He entered another much-publicized romance with actress Sally Field, the 978-1-936003-63-1 • $34.95 • Paper • [Trade] “second love of my life.” After his death, The Flying Nun said, “Burt still lives BLOOD MOON PRODUCTIONS in my heart,” but then expressed relief that, because of his recent death, he’d never read what she’d said about him in her memoir. · Publicity from tabloids and mainstream media will accompany Men liked him too: He played poker with Frank Sinatra; shared boozy nights the release of this book, along with radio interviews targeted to with John Wayne; intercepted a “pass” from closeted Spencer Tracy; talked Nashville and other country-western markets and videotaped “penis size”